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This restriction creates a categorical content prohibition with a gating mechanism requiring pre-authorization. The operational significance is that Shopify maintains authority to approve or deny requests for exceptions to the baseline content restriction, establishing a conditional use pathway for otherwise prohibited material.
Users operating Shopify storefronts are prohibited from offering pornographic or sexually explicit content unless they have obtained prior written approval from Shopify. The provision requires affirmative authorization rather than presumptive permission, placing the burden of securing exceptions on the user.
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You agree not to post, upload, publish, submit, or transmit any Content or use the Services to create any Output that: (a) infringes, misappropriates, or violates a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights, or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity o...
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"You may not use the Shopify Services to display, sell, or distribute pornographic or sexually explicit content unless you have received prior written approval from Shopify.— Excerpt from Shopify's Shopify Acceptable Use Policy
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This restriction creates a categorical content prohibition with a gating mechanism requiring pre-authorization. The operational significance is that Shopify maintains authority to approve or deny requests for exceptions to the baseline content restriction, establishing a conditional use pathway for otherwise prohibited material.
Users operating Shopify storefronts are prohibited from offering pornographic or sexually explicit content unless they have obtained prior written approval from Shopify. The provision requires affirmative authorization rather than presumptive permission, placing the burden of securing exceptions on the user.
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